--- Sez Kenneth Newman to George Erdner ---
 GE> I'd like to hear any modern band 
 GE> handle something as off the wall as Bertolt Brecht's "The Alabama 
 GE> Song". 
Well, the Cure did a decent cover of "Hello I Love You"...
 KN> Speaking of Brecht/Weill.... 
 KN> Check out the Art Bears doing Bertolt Brecht's "On 
 KN> Suicide" which captures it perfectly. Only don't listen 
 KN> when you're in a low mood. 
Or at least have some Leonard Cohen handy to cheer up with.
 KN> For that matter, Steeleye Span did a really good version 
 KN> of "The Black Freighter." 
That's my favorite "accordian era" Span song by far... 
You'd probably enjoy a CD by The Sextet of Orchestra USA, _Theatre Music
Of Kurt Weill_.  Recorded in 64 & 65, tracks include Alabama Song,
Havanna Song, As You Make Your Bed, (those three featuring Eric Dolphy
and John Lewis as well as Mike Zwerin, Richard Davis and Connie Kay)
plus Barbara Song and two takes each of Mack The Knife, Bilbao Song
and Pirate Jenny which feature Davis and Kay on bass and drums, and
arranger/conductor Zwerin on bass trumpet, plus Thad Jones on cornet,
but not Dolphy, who had died in Berlin in '64...
DM
... Double-check the redundancy generator, will you?
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